LONDON: Lee Chong Wei stormed into the quarter-finals of the London Olympics men’s singles badminton event at the Wembley Arena on Wednesday with a much-improved performance against Simon Santoso of Indonesia.

The Malaysian did not show any signs of the ankle injury affecting him and wrapped up the last 16 match 21-12, 21-8 in 34 minutes.

Chong Wei will now meet India’s Kashyap Parupalli in the last eight. Kashyap defeated Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne 21-14, 15-21, 21-9 to book his quarter-finals berth.

Chong Wei has played the world No. 21 ranked Indian twice before – in the Denmark Open in 2011 and 2010 Commonwealth Games – and won in straight sets both times.

– THE STAR